June Meeting

Back in the Warwick Arms, six of us gathered to discuss 'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel.  It was a rather difficult book, both long and confusing, we thought the writing style wasn't very clear with the author not making the speaker clear, jumping about in time and swapping the names of the characters between their personal names and their titles.  But we still enjoyed it.  It was an interesting take on a popular era describing Tudor life from Thomas Cromwell's point of view.  We thought that his early life could have been expanded upon but understand that not much evidence can be found for it.  The inter-play between Cromwell and Anne Boleyn was interesting, both being manipulators and both being confined by their breeding (Cromwell) or gender (Boleyn).

We chose our next book from the following:

• One Day by David Nicholls
• A Dark Enchantment by Roland Vernon
• Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov and George Bird
• The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
• Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh

We chose 'The Earth Hums in B Flat' by Mari Strachan which we'll be reading for the August meeting.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday 8th July, 7:30pm at Rachel's house, I'll send out directions nearer the time.